Edwin C. Johnson

Edwin Carl Johnson (1 January 1884-30 May 1970) was Governor of Colorado (D) from 10 January 1933 to 1 January 1937 (succeeding William Herbert Adams and preceding Ray Herbert Talbot) and from 11 January 1955 to 8 January 1957 (succeeding Daniel I.J. Thornton and preceding Stephen L.R. McNichols), as well as the US Senator from Colorado (D) from 3 January 1937 to 3 January 1955 (succeeding Edward P. Costigan and preceding Gordon L. Allott).

Biography
Edwin Carl Johnson was born in Scandia, Kansas in 1884, and hisi family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska when he was young. In 1909, he moved to Colorado, advised that the climate would help his tuberculosis. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1923 to 1931, as Lieutenant Governor from 1931 to 1933, as Governor from 1933 to 1937, as US Senator from 1937 too 1955, and as Governor from 1955 to 1957. He was one of few Democrats to criticize Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs of the 1930s. He died in Denver in 1970 at the age of 86.